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By partnering with Margot Lee Shetterly and the Human Computer Project, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum is shining a light on the women whose contributions at NASA have been hidden ...

Remembering ‘Hidden Figure,’ Human Computer & Pioneer, Katherine Johnson (Photo credit: Instagram) Katherine Johnson, one of the history-making NASA mathematicians known as a "human computer" depicted ...

Mary Jackson, NASA’s first Black female engineer, broke barriers and shifted the narrative for future generations of scientists.

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A group of Black women, crucial to NASA’s achievements during the space race and famously known as the “Hidden Figures,” were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill.

The women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer "hidden figures," and they now have Congressional Gold Medals to prove it.